I am attending Jenzabar Cars CX training in Loveland, Ohio this week. Loveland is north east of Cincinnati, Ohio. After the class today I went for a run along a bike trail that use to be the Miami railroad. This railroad played a part in the Civil War. It is now a Little Miami state park established in 1970. I ran for about 8 miles.
Fall weather is beautiful here in Loveland, Ohio. Today the high was 60 degrees and the low last night was 30 degrees. Last night was the first freeze of the fall for this area. I was running in my shorts and everyone that I saw had on long leggings and long sleeves or jackets. Some bike riders even had gloves. I just think that just a few days ago when I was running in Austin it was 85 degrees.
Today I ran all the way around Lady Bird Johnson Lake in Austin. I started at the Longhorn dam on Pleasant Valley and ran counter clockwise. I chose to run counter clockwise so that I would have the steep side of the Riverside Drive hill at the end mf my run. I ran the 10 miles in 95 minutes. I am inspired that I ran an average of 9.5-minute miles.
For this week I ran three days for a total of 22 miles. I want to run a marathon, 26 miles in one day. I was not tired or exhausted after the 10 mile run today. I will have to carry my water pack the next time that I do a 10 mile run.
I ran around the lake in Austin starting from the Longhorn Dam going clockwise last night. I ran across the I-35 bridge and back to my car starting at 7:15 PM and finished at 7:52 PM. It was a nice cool run and the last moments of the sunset were spectacular.
I’m starting the month weighing 196 pounds. I started the year of 2006 weighing 225 pounds. Since the start of the year and my participation in the Active for Live program and my own exercise program I have lost 29 pounds. I have done this purely with exercise alone and have not stopped eating what I like.
I would suppose that if I were to claim that I was on any diet it would be a beef died. I love beef and after living on the west
coast for most of my life I was glad to move to Texas where the fear of eating beef does not exist. My favorite form of beef is a hamburger. I am like the Popeye character J. Wellington Wimpy when it comes to burgers, I could eat one everyday.
My favorite source for burgers has to be What-A-Burger and Fuddruckers. I like What-A-Burger because they have a good cheap burger and I can mix a Big Red and Dr. Pepper to drink with my burger. I like Fuddruckers because they use fresh baked bread and I can put lots of tomato slices on the burger.
I have not been keeping track of how many miles I run each week. Last night I ran 7 miles in 71 minutes and gained 600 (do not know what it means) in elevation. I had not used a treadmill for running or walking until about a month ago, but it has become one of my favorite workout routine in 24 Hour Fitness.
I started running after a 20 year hiatus at the beginning of this year. I started training for a 5K event where I work and now I am running regularly in the gym and sometimes around Town Lake in Austin. I love running on the treadmill listening to music on my iPod.